Graham Diggle and Chris Harlow, your Faculty Representatives at the Faculty of Business, have compiled a report of their activity for the academic year 2016-2017. Read more about what they’ve been up to below.
Faculty meetings
29 Nov
–> Meeting of a dozen UCU members to discuss:
- Members attitude to calls for strike action
- UCU work on workload planning
- Reduced pay rates for Associate Lecturers
3 April (social event)
–> Meeting half a dozen UCU in social mode
- One new member recruited
- Concern about difficulty in having places to meet
- Feelings about poor morale at Faculty – later echoed by report from UCL London
Meetings with Faculty Exec (Andrew Halford)
8 Dec
- Discussion of the WLP framework, especially the intensification of workload and policy of loading to 100%
- Contrast between the University tariff and proposal for open day “duties”
- Request for notes of meeting with previous UCU (R Beresford)
- Appropriate training for programme leads (experience of management difficulties)
19 May
Next meeting scheduled
Casework
Additionally, Graham and Chris have carried out a solid amount of casework, involving both formal and informal discussion processes. Providing direct assistance to members, they have covered issues including discrimination in the appointment process, bullying/harassment, summary cuts to research allowance, and workload planning problems.
A big thank you to Graham and Chris for all their hard work this year!